The sandman

32 pages

English language

Published Nov. 15, 1989 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-36405-2
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OCLC Number:
20591752

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4 stars (22 reviews)

One night, instead of going to sleep, Jay stays awake to see if the sandman really does come.

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5 stars

I'm happy to finish this original series of Sandman comics right before the television series starts tomorrow on Netflix. It's remarkable timing, given I didn't read the comics on a schedule.

"Life is no play. We meet people once, and never see them again. There is no shape to events, no point at which we turn to the audience for their praise. No time at which we step behind the stage, to see the actors changing their wigs, and painting their faces, and muttering their lines."

Neil Gaiman has a pattern to what he writes. He rides a line of greatness and self-confidence/cringe that I'm afraid I'll get sick of, but never do -- even if someday I figure out how the magic works enough to do it myself, I'll still come back and re-read, re-watch, and re-feel what he's made.

Subjects

  • Sandman -- Fiction.
  • Bedtime -- Fiction.